Harvey Korman, RIP

May 30th, 2008 at 08:46am Will Pfeifer

Harvey Korman starred on THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW, provided the voice of the Great Gazoo on THE FLINTSTONES and played multiple roles on the legendarily awful STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL. But if you ask me, his greatest role was the deliciously eeeeeevil land snatcher (”Land” — see “snatch”) Hedy Lamarr (That’s Hedley!) in Mel Brooks’ classic comedy BLAZING SADDLES. There’s a ton of funny stuff in that 1974 movie, but Hedley is arguably the funniest part.

Here’s his memorable speech to the troops. Too bad he never got that almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He deserved it.

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